St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-21

Whether the summer "Outing" be
Dor a longer or shorter period, the
where and how to spend it to the best
advantage is pertinent query. Some
kYriter says: "If one simply seeks
pleasure, the seaside is the place /; if
lest, the quiet inland country; if a
weary brain and tangled nerves need
.tecuperation, fee to the hills and
mountains" 1t is a fact that there is
more electricity in high attitudes than
Vow and this is what strained nerves
Especially need.
But, after all, there is more in the
way one spends his vacation than in
8he locality in which it is spent. 1t
seems singular that city people should
1esire to go to fashionable resort,
with its excitements, it's crowds and
General uneasiness, prolOnging the ag
hny of winter social dissipation. But,
De suppose, so long as anxious man.
mas and young people regard this as
mating" season and marriage mart,
lbany will rush to the miniature city
falled a fashionable watering place.
But, wherever you are, take heed
4nd beware of the water you drink,
lest you take home with you the seeds
.pf typhoid fever, dysentery or some
4ther zymOtic disease. Don't let the
bttle folks eat under or Overripe fruit.
DON'T let John and James go boating
Ind bathing without proper means of
4escue in case of accident. In rowing
pr sailing it is very desirable that
There should be more than one boat,
10 that one may assist the other in any
trOuble.
1.-The writer some years ago found
even log canoe very convenient in
kescuing two young men from a cap
lied sailing boat. 1t is perfectly
Charming to think of the number of
Careless and needless deaths every
GUNNER by drowning. We can we'll
sympathize with the anxious mother
Who, it is said, charged her boy not to
20 near the water till he had learned
10 swim And even expert swimmers
by a sudden cramp are liable to drown
without proper assistance. Even in
Sea bathing there is much and cOntin-
bal danger that those who cannot swim
will, before they are aware of it, get
Beyond their depth, and a good swim
4heT, who goes to their rescue, is liable
10 be drawn under and drowned with
4he other in their wild and desperate
tgrapple for safety. Every bathing
place should be required by law to
have a sufficient supply of safety ropes
and boats to prevent the needless
deaths which occur every summer. If
your summer quarters are at a hotel,
it is we'll to have knOtted rope in
your trunk so, in case of a fire, al
. though in the third or seventh story of
the building, you can have one chance
for the life of yourself and loved ones.
A Boston merchant told me he sat up
all night in one of the upper stories of
hotel rather than go to bed and run
the risk of being sacrificed as whole
burnt offering to the fire tiend before
morning. OF all the careless and hOr-
rible deaths one of the worst is to
stand and brOil to death in the fifth
story of a hotel for want of a ladder or
rope. TO rely upon "hOOk and lad
der" company is too often a vain re-
lance.
Don't let your children run against
poison ivy or dOgwOOd and so spoil
half their summer by carelessness.
Don't presume either to II, Ich on the
safety of an old farm horse. Let a
strap or thill break and this same
sober, stupid old beast is often as dan
5 gerOus as steam engine OF the track.
More than one family who live near
the writer have been suffering ever
since last summer by accidents of this
sort.
Don't let the young folks spend
much of their time in reading, espec-
tally the lOve-sick trash which floods
aour country. You are i'll the country
for healthful recreation, not for morbid
stimulation of the emotional nature.
Don't engage in senseless and wicked
+ Irritation, raising hopes only to disap-
point them. 1t is moral burglary
which no highminded and honorable
person will indulge in. Don't put on
4 airs because you are from some city.
Your country cousin may be an unpol-
ished diamond and yet possess twice
. the real value of some person with an
outside but superficial polishing OF
city manners.-[T. p. b. in Boston
Journal.